USN-7614-1: pcs vulnerabilities

USN-7614-1: pcs vulnerabilities

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/rss.xml / Thu, 07/03/2025 - 05:28
Cedric Buissart discovered that pcs did not correctly handle certain parameters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information or elevate their privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-1086) Ondrej Mular discovered that pcs did not correctly handle Unix socket permissions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to elevate their privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2735) It was discovered that pcs did not correctly handle PAM authentication. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication mechanisms. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-1049) It was discovered that pcs did not correctly handle the validation of Node names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-2661)

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